Holz v. Rediske
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: LawRence W. ITalsey, Judge. This is an action for false imprisonment, in which the plaintiff, after a jury trial, recovered a judgment against the defendants for $500 and costs.
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Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: LawRence W. ITalsey, Judge. This is an action for false imprisonment, in which the plaintiff, after a jury trial, recovered a judgment against the defendants for $500 and costs. It appeared upon the trial that the action grew out of a previous civil action in which the defendant Redislee had sued the plaintiff, IIolz before the defendant Wolslci, a justice of the peace, for the unlawful sale of mortgaged chattels. That action was brought in September, 1900, and the case was Sbntinued from time to time until October 26, 1900,…
1Opinion of the CourtWihslow, J.
The docket of the justice of the peace eon--clusively shows that he lost jurisdiction of the action of Eediske against Holz when he adjourned that action until the 2d day of November on plaintiff’s request “for the reason that his [plaintiff’s] lawyer could not be present.” This *356was the fourth adjournment of the cause, and it could only be granted by consent of the parties, or upon affidavit showing the absence of a material witness, as prescribed in sec. 3631, Stats. 1898. It is true that it is not essential that the docket should show the cause of the adjournment, for,, in the absence of…
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